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No big surprise here but former Councillor and executive director of Greenpeace Peter Tabuns hangs on to the provincial riding of Toronto-Danforth. The NDP has held the riding since the 1960s. Torontoist is watching Jack read out more thankyous than an Oscar acceptance speech. Fortunately there's no orchestra playing telling him to get off the stage.

Torontoist was visiting Dora Keogh's pub for the first monthly CommonPlaces drinks night, when he noticed a sign for the Ben Chin Meet and Greet. It seems that everybody's favourite Liberal candidate was going to be having a minor campaign event. Torontoist would have to say that Chin was an absolute gentleman, he even spoke to us about how impressed he was with his riding association, "one that couldn't put together an event for 15 people a year ago."

A couple of weeks back we questioned Ben Chin's background as a privileged immigrant/refugee. This allegation apparently made the rounds and Chin responded to one blogger giving them a gripping blow-by-blow account of his parent's immigration history. Also, his website now has content!

Eye weekly ran a huge article on NDPer Peter Tabuns, who's running to fill Marilyn Churley's vacant Queen's Park seat in Toronto Danforth. So we thought we'd even up the score a little bit by mentioning the Liberal candidate, Ben Chin. After getting axed at Toronto1 the former CBCer became the PR guy for the premier, but Chin, a long-time prominent journalist, car lover and son of political refugees is arguably a star candidate.